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062 - Book Nine Chapter Eight · Brothers Karamazov

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Speaker 1: Chapter sixty two of The Brothers Karametzo by Fayodor Dostoyevsky,
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Speaker 1: translated by Constance Garnet. This librevox recording is in the
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Speaker 1: public domain recording by Tony Addison, Chapter eight, The Evidence
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Speaker 1: of the Witnesses the Babe. The examination of the witnesses began.
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Speaker 1: But we will not continue our story in such detail
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Speaker 1: as before, and so we will not dwell on how
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Speaker 1: Nikolay Popenovitch impressed on every witness cold that he must
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Speaker 1: give his evidence in accordance with truth and conscience, and
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Speaker 1: that he would afterwards have to repeat his evidence on oath,
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Speaker 1: howevery witness was called upon to sign the protocol of
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Speaker 1: his evidence, and so on. We will only note that
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Speaker 1: the point principally insisted upon in the examination was the
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Speaker 1: question of the three thousand rubles, that is, or was
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Speaker 1: the sum spent here at Mocro by Mitcha on the
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Speaker 1: first occasion a month before a three thousand or fifteen hundred,
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Speaker 1: And again had he spent three thousand or fifteen hundred yesterday? Alas,
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Speaker 1: all the evidence given by everyone turned out to be
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Speaker 1: against Micha, there was not one in his favor, and
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Speaker 1: some witnesses introduced new, almost crushing facts in contradiction of
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Speaker 1: his Mitya's story. The first witness examined was Trypon Borisovitch.
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Speaker 1: He was not in the least abashed as he stood
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Speaker 1: before the lawyers. He had, on the contrary, an air
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Speaker 1: of stern and severe indignation with the accused, which gave
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Speaker 1: him an appearance of truthfulness and personal dignity. He spoke little,
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Speaker 1: and with reserve, waited to be questioned, answered precisely and deliberately,
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Speaker 1: firmly and unhesitatingly. He bore witness that the sum spent
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Speaker 1: a month before could not have been less than three thousand,
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Speaker 1: that all the peasants about here would testify that they
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Speaker 1: had heard the sum of three thousand mentioned by Dmitri
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Speaker 1: Fyodorovitch himself. What a lot of money he plung away
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Speaker 1: on the gypsy girls alone. He wasted a thousand, I
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Speaker 1: dare say, on them alone. I don't believe I gave
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Speaker 1: them five hundred, was Mitya's gloomy comment on this. It's
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Speaker 1: a pity I didn't count the money at the time,
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Speaker 1: but I was drunk. Mitya was sitting sideways with his
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Speaker 1: back to the curtains. He listened gloomily, with a melancholy
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Speaker 1: and exhausted it, as though we would say, oh, say
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Speaker 1: what you like. It makes no difference. Now more than
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Speaker 1: a thousand went on them. Dmitri Fyodorovitch retorted, trifon Borisovitch firmly.
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Speaker 1: You flung it about at around them, and they picked
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Speaker 1: it up. They were a rascally, Theevish lot horse dealers.
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Speaker 1: They'd been driven away from here, or maybe they'd bear
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Speaker 1: witness themselves how much they got from you. I saw
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Speaker 1: the sum in your hands myself, accounted I didn't. She
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Speaker 1: didn't let me. That's true enough, but by the look
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Speaker 1: of it, I should say it was far more than
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Speaker 1: fifteen hundred. Fifteen hundred. Indeed, we've seen money too. We
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Speaker 1: can judge of amounts. As for the sun spent yesterday,
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Speaker 1: he asserted that Dmitri Fyodorovitch had told him as soon
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Speaker 1: as he arrived that he had brought three thousand with him.
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Speaker 1: Come now, is that so trife from Borissovitch replied Mitya.
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Speaker 1: Surely I didn't declare so positively that I'd brought three thousand.
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Speaker 1: You did say so, Dmitri Fyodorovitch. You said it before.
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Speaker 1: Andre Andre himself is still here, sent by him, And
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Speaker 1: in the hall when you were treating the chorus, you
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Speaker 1: shouted straight out that you would leave your six thousand here,
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Speaker 1: that is with what you spent before. We must understand.
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Speaker 1: Stepan and Sembion heard it, and Payoto fommtch Galganov too
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Speaker 1: was standing beside you at the time. Maybe he'd remember it.
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Speaker 1: The evidence as to the sixth thousand made an extraordinary
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Speaker 1: impression on the two lawyers. They were delighted with this
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Speaker 1: new mode of rec Three and three made six. Three
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Speaker 1: thousand then and three now made six. That was clear.
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Speaker 1: They questioned all the peasants suggested by Tryfon Borisovic, Stepan
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Speaker 1: and Semyon, the driver, Andre and Kalganov. The peasants and
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Speaker 1: the driver unhesitatingly confirmed Tryfon Borysovic's evidence. They noted down
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Speaker 1: with particular care Andre's account of the conversation he had
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Speaker 1: had with Mitya on the road, where says he am
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Speaker 1: I Dmitri Byodorovitch going to heaven or to hell? And
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Speaker 1: shall I be forgiven in the next world or not.
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Speaker 1: The psychological ipolit Kirolovitch heard this with a subtle smile,
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Speaker 1: and ended by recommending that these remarks as to where
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Speaker 1: Dmitri Fyodorovitch would go as should be included in the case. Kalganov,
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Speaker 1: when called, came in reluctantly, frowning and ill humored, and
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Speaker 1: he spoke to the lawyers as though he had never
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Speaker 1: met them before in his life, though they were acquaintances
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Speaker 1: whom he had been meeting every day for a long
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Speaker 1: time past. He began by saying that he knew nothing
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Speaker 1: about it and didn't want to, but it appeared that
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Speaker 1: he had heard of the sixth thousand, and he admitted
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Speaker 1: that he had been standing close by at the moment.
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Speaker 1: As far as he could see. He didn't know how
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Speaker 1: much money Mitya had in his hand. He affirmed that
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Speaker 1: the Poles had cheated at cards. In reply to reiterated questions,
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Speaker 1: he stated that after the pole had been turned out,
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Speaker 1: Mitya's position with Agrafena Alexandrovna had certainly improved, and that
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Speaker 1: she had said that she loved him. He spoke of
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Speaker 1: Agrafena Alexandrovna with reserve and respect, as though she had
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Speaker 1: been a lady of the best society, and did not
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Speaker 1: once allow himself to call her Grushenka. In spite of
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Speaker 1: the young man's obvious repugnance at giving evidence, Ipolit Kirillovitch
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Speaker 1: examined him at great length, and only from him learned
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Speaker 1: all the details of what made up Mitya's romance. So
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Speaker 1: to say, on that night, Mitya did not once pull
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Speaker 1: Kalganov up. At last, they let the young man go,
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Speaker 1: and he left the room with unconcealed indignation. The Poles,
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Speaker 1: too were examined. Though they had gone to bed in
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Speaker 1: their room, they had not slept till night, and on
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Speaker 1: the arrival of the police officers, they hastily dressed and
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Speaker 1: got ready. Realizing that they would certainly be sent for
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Speaker 1: they gave their evidence with dignity, though not without some uneasiness.
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Speaker 1: The little Pole turned out to be a retired official
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Speaker 1: of the twelfth class who had served in Siberia as
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Speaker 1: a veterinary surgeon. His name was mussy Alovitch. Pan of
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Speaker 1: Rublevsky turned out to be an uncertificated dentist. Although Nikolay
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Speaker 1: Parfenovitch asked them questions on entering the room, they both
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Speaker 1: addressed their answers to Mihail Makarovitch, who was standing on
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Speaker 1: one side, taking him in their ignorance for the most
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Speaker 1: important person and in command, and addressed him at every
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Speaker 1: word as pan Gnal. Only after several reproofs from Mihail
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Speaker 1: Makarovitch himself, they grasped that they had to address their
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Speaker 1: answers to Nikolay Parfenovitch. Only it turned out that they
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Speaker 1: could speak Russian and quite correctly, except for their accent.
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Speaker 1: In some words of his relations with Grushenka, a past
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Speaker 1: and present, a pan mussy Alovitch spoke proudly and warmly,
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Speaker 1: so that Mitya was roused at once and declared that
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Speaker 1: he would not allow the scoundrel to speak like that
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Speaker 1: in his presence. A pan mussy Alovitch at once called
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Speaker 1: attention to the word scoundrel and begged that it should
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Speaker 1: be put down in the protocol. Mitya fumed with rage.
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Speaker 1: He's a scoundrel, A scoundrel. You can put that down
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Speaker 1: and put down to that. In spite of the protocol,
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Speaker 1: I still declare that he's a scoundrel, he cried. Though
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Speaker 1: Anikolay Parfenovitch did insert this in the protocol, he showed
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Speaker 1: the most praiseworthy tact and management. After sternly reprimanding Mitya,
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Speaker 1: he cut short all further inquiry into the romantic aspect
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Speaker 1: of the case and hastened to pass to what was essential.
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Speaker 1: One piece of evidence given by the Poles roused special
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Speaker 1: interest in the lawyers. That was how in that very
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Speaker 1: room Mitya had tried to buy off Pan mussy Alovitch
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Speaker 1: and had offered him three thousand rubles to resign his
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Speaker 1: claims seven hundred rubles down, and the remaining two thousand,
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Speaker 1: three hundred to be paid next day in the town.
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Speaker 1: He had sworn at the time that he had not
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Speaker 1: the whole sum with him at Mokroe, but that his
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Speaker 1: money was in the town. Mitchya observed hotly that he
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Speaker 1: had not said that he would be sure to pay
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Speaker 1: him the remainder next day in the town. But Pan
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Speaker 1: of Rublevsky confirmed the statement, and Mitya, after thinking for
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Speaker 1: a moment, admitted Franning that it must have been as
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Speaker 1: the Pole stated that he had been excited at the
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Speaker 1: time and might indeed have said so. The prosecutor positively
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Speaker 1: pounced on this piece of evidence. It seemed to establish
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Speaker 1: for the prosecution, and they did, in fact base this
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Speaker 1: deduction on it that half or a part of the
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Speaker 1: three thousand that had come into Mitcha's hands might really
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Speaker 1: have been left somewhere hidden in the town, or even
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Speaker 1: perhaps way here in Mokro. This would explain the circumstance
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Speaker 1: so baffling for the prosecution that only eight hundred rubles
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Speaker 1: were to be found in Mitya's hands. This circumstance had
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Speaker 1: been the one piece of evidence, which, insignificant as it was,
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Speaker 1: had hitherto told to some extent in Mitya's favor. Now
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Speaker 1: this one piece of evidence in his favor had broken down.
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Speaker 1: In answer to the prosecutor's inquiry, Wei would have got
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Speaker 1: the remaining two thousand, three hundred rubles, since he himself
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Speaker 1: had denied having more than fifteen hundred. Mitya confidently replied
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Speaker 1: that he had meant to offer the little chap not money,
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Speaker 1: but a formal deed of conveyance of his rights to
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Speaker 1: the village of Chermashnya, those rights which he had already
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Speaker 1: offered to Samsonov and Madame Hohlaka. The prosecutor positively smiled
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Speaker 1: at the innocence of this subterfuge, and you imagine he
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Speaker 1: would have accepted such a deed as a substitute for
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Speaker 1: two thousand, three hundred roubles in cash. He certainly would
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Speaker 1: have accepted it. Mitya declared warmly, Why look here, he
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Speaker 1: might have grabbed not two thousand, but four or six
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Speaker 1: for it. He would have put his lawyer's poles and
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Speaker 1: Jews on to the job, and might have got not
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Speaker 1: three thousand but the whole property out of the old man.
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Speaker 1: The evidence of Pan Mussilovitch was of course entered in
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Speaker 1: the protocol in the fullest detail. Then they let the
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Speaker 1: Poles go. The incident of the cheating at cards was
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Speaker 1: hardly touched upon, and Nikolay Parfenovitch was too well pleased
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Speaker 1: with them as it was, and did not want to
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Speaker 1: worry them with trifles. Moreroba, it was nothing but a foolish,
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Speaker 1: drunken quarrel over cards. There had been drinking and disorder
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Speaker 1: enough that night, so the two hundred roubles remained in
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Speaker 1: the pockets of the poles. Then old Maximov was summoned.
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Speaker 1: He came in timidly, approached with little steps, looking very
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Speaker 1: disheveled and depressed. He had all this time taken refuge
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Speaker 1: below with Grushenka sitting dumbly beside it, and now and
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Speaker 1: then he began blubbering over her and wiping his eyes
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Speaker 1: with a blue check handkerchief, as Mihail Makarovitch described afterwards,
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Speaker 1: so that she herself began trying to pacify and comfort him.
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Speaker 1: The old man at once confessed that he had done wrong,
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Speaker 1: that he had borrowed ten roubles in my poverty from
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Speaker 1: Dmitri by Doorovitch, and that he was ready to pay
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Speaker 1: it back. To Parfenovitch's direct question, had he noticed how
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Speaker 1: much money Dmitri Fyodorovitch held in his hand, as he
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Speaker 1: must have been able to see the sum better than anyone.
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Speaker 1: When he took the note from him, Maxim Up, in
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Speaker 1: the most positive manner, declared that there was twenty thousand.
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Speaker 1: Have you ever seen so much as twenty thousand before them,
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Speaker 1: inquired Nikolay Parfenovitch with a smile, To be sure, I
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Speaker 1: have not twenty, but sudden, when my wife mortgaged my
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Speaker 1: little property, she'd only let me look at it from
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Speaker 1: a distance, boasting of it to me. It was a
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Speaker 1: very thick bundle, all rainbow colored notes, and Dmitri Fyedorovich's
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Speaker 1: were all rainbow colored. He was not kept long. At last,
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Speaker 1: it was Grushenka's term. Nikolai Poffenovitch was obviously apprehensive of
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Speaker 1: the effect her appearance might have on Mitya, and he
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Speaker 1: muttered a few words of admonition to him, but Mitchya
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Speaker 1: bowed his head in silence, giving him to understand that
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Speaker 1: he would not make a scene. Mihail Makarabitch himself led
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Speaker 1: Grushenka in. She entered with a stern and gloomy face
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Speaker 1: that looked almost composed, and sat down quietly on the
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Speaker 1: chair offered her by Nikolai Poffenovitch. She was very pale,
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Speaker 1: she seemed to be cold, and wrapped herself closely in
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Speaker 1: a magnificent black shawl. She was suffering from a slight
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Speaker 1: feverish chill, the first symptom of the long illness which
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Speaker 1: followed that night. Her grave air, her direct, earnest look,
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Speaker 1: and quiet manner made a very favorable impression on every one.
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Speaker 1: Nikolay Popenovitch was even a little bit fascinated. He admitted
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Speaker 1: himself when talking about it afterwards, that only then had
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Speaker 1: he seen how handsome the woman was for though he
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Speaker 1: had seen her several times before, he had always looked
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Speaker 1: upon her as something of a provincial attira. She has
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Speaker 1: the manners of the best society, he said, enthusiastically gossiping
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Speaker 1: about her in a circle of ladies. But this was
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Speaker 1: received with positive indignation by the ladies, who immediately called
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Speaker 1: him a naughty man. To his great satisfaction. As she
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Speaker 1: entered the room, Grushenka only glanced for an instant at Mitya,
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Speaker 1: who looked at her uneasily, but her face reassured him
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Speaker 1: at once. After the first inevitable inquiries and warnings, and
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Speaker 1: Nikolay Pofenovitch asked her, hesitating a little, but preserving the
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Speaker 1: most courteous manner, on what terms she was with the
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Speaker 1: retired Lieutenant Dmitri Fyodorovitch Karamatzo. To this, Grushenka firmly and
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Speaker 1: quietly replied, he was an acquaintance. He came to see
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Speaker 1: me as an acquaintance during the last month. To further
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Speaker 1: inquisitive questions, she answered plainly and with complete frankness that
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Speaker 1: though at times she had thought him attractive, she had
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Speaker 1: not loved him. But that won his heart as well.
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Speaker 1: As his old father's in my nasty spite that she
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Speaker 1: had seen that met, which she was very jealous of
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Speaker 1: Fyodor Pavlovitch and everyone else, but that had only amused her.
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Speaker 1: She had never meant to go to Fyodor Pavlovitch. She
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Speaker 1: had simply been laughing at him. I had no thoughts
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Speaker 1: for either of them all this last month. I was
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Speaker 1: expecting another man who had wronged me. But I think
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Speaker 1: she said in conclusion that there's no need for you
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Speaker 1: to inquire about that, nor for me to answer you,
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Speaker 1: for that's my own affair. Nikolai Popenovitch immediately acted upon
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Speaker 1: this hint. He again dismissed the romantic aspect of the
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Speaker 1: case and passed to the serious one, that is, to
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Speaker 1: the question of most importance. Concerning the three thousand rubles.
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Speaker 1: Grushenka confirmed the statement that three thousand rubles had certainly
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Speaker 1: been spent on the first korl at Mokro, and though
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Speaker 1: she had not counted the money herself, she had heard
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Speaker 1: that it was three thousand from Dmitri Fyodorovitch's own lips.
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Speaker 1: Did he tell you that alone or before someone else,
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Speaker 1: or did you only hear him speak of it to
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Speaker 1: others in your presence, the prosecutor inquired immediately, to which
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Speaker 1: Grushenka replied that she had heard him say so before
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Speaker 1: other people, and had heard him say so when they
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Speaker 1: were alone. Did he say it to you alone once
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Speaker 1: or several times? Inquired the prosecutor, and learned that he
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Speaker 1: had told Grushenka so several times. Ipolit Kirolovitch was very
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Speaker 1: well satisfied with this piece of evidence. Further examination illicited
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Speaker 1: that Grushenka knew too where that money had come from,
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Speaker 1: and that Dmitri Fyodorovitch had from Katerina Ivanovna. And did
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Speaker 1: you never once hear that the money spent a month
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Speaker 1: ago was not three thousand but less, and that dmitriy
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Speaker 1: Pyodorovitch had saved half that sum for his own use.
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Speaker 1: No I never heard that, answered Grushenka. It was explained
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Speaker 1: further that Mitya had, on the contrary, often told her
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Speaker 1: that he hadn't a fathing. He was always expecting to
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Speaker 1: get some from his father, said Grushenka. In conclusion, did
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Speaker 1: he never say before you casually or in a moment
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Speaker 1: of irritation, Nikolay Popenovitch put in suddenly that he intended
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Speaker 1: to make an attempt on his father's life. Ah, he
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Speaker 1: did say, so, sighed Grushenka. Once or several times. He
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Speaker 1: mentioned it several times, always in anger. And did you
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Speaker 1: believe he would do it? No? I never believed it,
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Speaker 1: she answered firmly. I had faith in his noble heart. Gentlemen,
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Speaker 1: allow me, cried Mitya. Suddenly, allow me to say one
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Speaker 1: word to Agrippina Alexandrovna. In your presence, you can speak.
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Speaker 1: Nikolai Pofanovitch assented, Alexandrovna. Mitya got up from his chair.
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Speaker 1: Have faith in God and in me. I am not
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Speaker 1: guilty of my father's murder. Having uttered these words, Mitya
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Speaker 1: sat down again on his chair. Grushenka stood up and
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Speaker 1: crussed herself devoutly before the icon. Thanks be to thee,
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Speaker 1: Oh Lord, she said, in a voice thrilled with emotion
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Speaker 1: and still standing. She turned to Nikolai Poffenovitch and added,
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Speaker 1: as he has spoken, now believe it. I know him.
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Speaker 1: He'll say anything as a joke or from obstinacy, but
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Speaker 1: he'll never deceive you against his conscience. He's telling the
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Speaker 1: whole truth. You may believe it. Thanks, Agrippina Alexandrovna, You've
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Speaker 1: given me fresh courage. Mitya responded in a quivering voice.
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Speaker 1: As to the money spent the previous day, she declared
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Speaker 1: that she did not know what sum it was, but
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Speaker 1: had heard him tell several people that he had three
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Speaker 1: thousand with him, And to the question where he got
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Speaker 1: the money, she said that he had told her that
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Speaker 1: he had stolen it from Katerina Ivanovna, and that she
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Speaker 1: had replied to that that he hadn't stolen it and
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Speaker 1: that he must pay the money back next day. On
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Speaker 1: the prosecutors asking her emphatically whether the money he said
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Speaker 1: he had stolen from Katerina Ivanovna was what he had
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Speaker 1: spent yesterday or what he had squandered here a month ago,
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Speaker 1: she declared that he meant the money spent a month ago,
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Speaker 1: and that that was how she understood him. Grushenka was
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Speaker 1: at last released, and Nikolai Popenovitch informed her impulsively that
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Speaker 1: she might at once return to the town, and that
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Speaker 1: if he could be of any assistance to her with horses,
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Speaker 1: for example, or if she would care for an escort,
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Speaker 1: he would be I thank you, sincerely, said Grushenka, bowing
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Speaker 1: to him, I'm going with this old gentleman. I am
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Speaker 1: driving him back to town with me. And meanwhile, if you'l alami,
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Speaker 1: I'll wait below to hear what you decide about Dmitri Pyodorovitch.
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Speaker 1: She went out. Mitya was calm and even looked more cheerful,
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Speaker 1: but only for a moment. He felt more, more and
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Speaker 1: more oppressed by a strange physical weakness. His eyes were
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Speaker 1: closing with fatigue. The examination of the witnesses was at
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Speaker 1: last over. They proceeded to a final revision of the protocol.
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Speaker 1: Mitya got up, moved from his chair to the corner
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Speaker 1: by the curtain, lay down on a large chest covered
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Speaker 1: with a rug, and instantly fell asleep. He had a
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Speaker 1: strange dream, utterly out of keeping with the place and
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Speaker 1: the time. He was driving somewhere in the steps where
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Speaker 1: he had been stationed long ago, and a peasant was
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Speaker 1: driving in in a cart with a pair of horses,
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Speaker 1: through snow and sleep. He was cold. It was early
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Speaker 1: in November, and the snow was falling in big wet
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Speaker 1: flakes as soon as it touched the earth, and the
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Speaker 1: peasant drove him smartly. He had a fair long beard.
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Speaker 1: He was not an old man, somewhere about fifty, and
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Speaker 1: he had on a gray peasant smock. Not far off
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Speaker 1: was a village. He could see the black huts, and
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Speaker 1: half the huts were burnt down. There were only the
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Speaker 1: charred beams sticking up. And as they drove in there
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Speaker 1: were peasant women drawn up along the road, a lot
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Speaker 1: of women a whole row, all thin and one with
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Speaker 1: their faces a sort of brownish color, especially one of
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Speaker 1: the edge, a tall, bony woman who looked forty but
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Speaker 1: might have been only twenty, with a long, thin face,
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Speaker 1: and in her arms was a little baby crying, and
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Speaker 1: her breast seemed so dried up that there was not
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Speaker 1: a drop of milk in them. And the child cried
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Speaker 1: and cried and held out its little bare arms, with
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Speaker 1: its little pists blue from cold. Why are they crying?
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Speaker 1: Why are they crying? Mitya asked, as they dashed gaily by.
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Speaker 1: It's the babe, answered the driver, the babe weeping, And
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Speaker 1: Mitya was struck by his saying, in his peasant way,
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Speaker 1: the babe. And he liked the peasants calling it a babe.
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Speaker 1: There seemed more pity in it, but Why is it weeping?
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Speaker 1: Mitya persisted stupidly. Why are its little arms bad? Why
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Speaker 1: don't they wrap it up? The babe's cold, Its little
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Speaker 1: clothes are frozen and don't warm it? But why is it? Why?
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Speaker 1: Foolish Mitya still persisted, Why the poor people burnt out?
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Speaker 1: They've no bread? They're begging because they've been burnt out. No, No, Mitya,
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Speaker 1: as it were, still did not understand. Tell me, why
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Speaker 1: is it those poor mothers stand there? Why are people poor?
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Speaker 1: Why is the babe poor? Why is the step baron?
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Speaker 1: Why don't they hug each other and kiss? Why don't
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Speaker 1: they sing songs of joy? Why are they so dark
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Speaker 1: from black misery? Why don't they feed the babe? And
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Speaker 1: he felt that though his questions were unreasonable and senseless,
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Speaker 1: yet he wanted to ask just that, and he had
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Speaker 1: to ask it just in that way, And he felt
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Speaker 1: that a passionate pity such as he had never known
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Speaker 1: before was rising in his heart. That he wanted to cry,
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Speaker 1: that he wanted to do something for them all, so
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Speaker 1: that the babe should weep no more, the dark faced,
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Speaker 1: dried up mother should not weep, that no one should
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Speaker 1: shed tears again from that moment, and he wanted to
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Speaker 1: do it at once, at once, regardless of all obstacles,
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Speaker 1: with all the recklessness of the Karamatzovs. And I'm coming
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Speaker 1: with you. I won't leave you now for the rest
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Speaker 1: of my life. I'm coming with you. He heard close
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Speaker 1: beside him Grushenka's tender voice, thrilling with emotion, and his
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Speaker 1: heart glowed, and he struggled forward towards the light, and
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Speaker 1: he longed to live, to live, to go arm and
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Speaker 1: arm towards the new beckoning light, and to hasten, hasten
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Speaker 1: now at once? What where? He exclaimed, opening his eyes
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Speaker 1: and sitting up on the chest, as though we had
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Speaker 1: revived from a swoon, smiling brightly. Nikolay Popenovitch was standing
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Speaker 1: over him, suggesting that he should hear the protocol, read
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Speaker 1: aloud and sign it. Mitya guessed that he had been
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Speaker 1: asleep an hour or more, but he did not hear
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Speaker 1: Nikolay Parfenovitch. He was suddenly struck by the fact that
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Speaker 1: there was a pillow under his head, which hadn't been
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Speaker 1: there when he had leant back, exhausted on the chest.
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Speaker 1: Who put that pillow under my head? Who was so kind.
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Speaker 1: He cried with a sort of ecstatic gratitude and tears
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Speaker 1: in his voice, as though some great kindness had been
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Speaker 1: shown him. He never found out who this kind man was.
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Speaker 1: Perhaps one of the peasant witnesses, or Nikolay Parfenovitch's little
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Speaker 1: secretary had compassionately thought to put a pillow under his head,
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Speaker 1: but his whole soul was quivering with tears. He went
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Speaker 1: to the table and said that he would sign whatever
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Speaker 1: they liked. I've had a good dreamed, gentleman, he said,
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Speaker 1: in a strange voice, with a new light as of
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Speaker 1: joy in his face. End of Chapter sixty two.